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Kalori Term 4 - Week 2 17 October 2017
Respect, Honesty, Responsibility – RHR – That’s Who We Are
Meryula St Narromine NSW 2821
P: 02 68894566 F: 02 68894451
Denise King - Principal
Kindergarten 2018
The children who will be commencing Kindergarten in 2018
have been participating in our KinderStart Orientation
program with Mrs Hamilton and her team - Ms McKinnon,
Ms Brown and Mrs Newbigging.
This program commenced in Term 3 and concludes in
Week 5 of Term 4. Mrs Hamilton is extremely pleased with the progress the
students have made in their readiness for school. The students have had a sensational time focusing on pre-writing,
reading and number strategies, along with social and emotional wellbeing focus activities being included into their
daily routines. The children have enjoyed practicing their fine and gross motor skills with arts, crafts and physical
movement. A highlight for the 2018 Kindergarten class is getting to meet and visit the other classes within our school
community, seeing the lovely learning spaces and helping in our gardens to cultivate vegetables and monitor the
change of our seasons. We are extremely excited and look forward to the commencement of the new school year
when our little KinderStart boys and girls commence Kindergarten.
Transition to School
Transition to School program, for 2019 Kindergarten students, is now taking enrolments for 2018.
To clarify how our reconnected Kindergarten Orientation program works;
We now have two components to the transition for the early years students; these programs focus on learning that
is holistic, dynamic and individual encouraging the cognitive, social and emotional growth of our future students and
these are a free service provided by Narromine Public School.
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Week 2 Wed-Thurs Book Fair Fri – Kindy Zoo Week 3 Mon - K-6 Assembly Thurs – Yr6 NHS Transition Fri – K-2 Finding Frank performance
NPS Sport and Co-curricular photos have been rescheduled to Wednesday 1 November.
Students involved are to wear sports uniform on this day.
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Denise King – Principal continued
Transition to School continued
Firstly, Narromine Public School is
commencing next year with a
more substantial Kindergarten
readiness program which we are
calling Transition to School.
Kindergarten students starting
school in 2019 will be able to
attend the program one day per
week from 8.55-2.55pm from
Week 2 to Week 9 of each term in
2018.
Mrs Hamilton and her team have
designed a learning outline that
will consolidate and support the early learning framework, together we will be encouraging our families to continue
their preschool journey and participate in our Transition as an interwoven approach to education.
Secondly, we will have NPS’s signature orientation program, KinderStart. Kinderstart will continue as it has for the
past 3 years commencing in Week 5 Term 3 and concluding in Week 5 Term 4 from 10-2pm. Students will attend one
day per week and focus on readiness and preparation for Kindergarten 2019.
Throughout the NPS Orientation programs the children will undertake activities that build a strong sense of identity
and wellbeing, activities that support, develop and enhance literacy, numeracy and the sciences such as visiting the
library to be amerced in books, discovering our Count Me In activities, engaging in science based developmental play
lessons; and much more, all the while mixing and meeting our staff and the NPS school community. Developing
students as positive learners and active communicators who are happy, confident and social in our setting is our
goal. Engaging with families as part of the learning journey is a key component of our focus within our orientations
programs. We welcome all enquiries and encourage families to take advantage of our educational services to
enhance the first year of school for their children.
Book Fair
Mrs Craig and her library helpers are super excited this week as NPS is hosting its
yearly Book Fair. The titles and topics of this year’s books, posters and stationary
are very cool and varied. Don’t forget to collect your raffle ticket, each time you
purchase an item to go into the draw to win a book.
Please come and support our literacy fundraiser. Book Fair brings in vital
resources to the school’s library for all the children K-6 to share and delight in.
We love our library as a learning space, so lets
keep our catalogued books new and interesting
for the students.
New student teacher
Meet Mrs Elaine Sippel who is currently on her final practicum teaching 6T for the
next six weeks. Mrs Sippel is completing her Masters of Education degree at the
University of New England. She is looking forward to finally being finished and having
her own class to teach. Students in 6T are enjoying Mrs Sippel's enthusiasm as
together they learn about the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef amongst other KLAs.
Respect, Honesty, Responsibility – RHR – That’s Who We Are
Sport
This term Years 3-6 are doing swimming for sport on Fridays from
11:30am-1pm each week. Students will be taken through a series of
activities such as water confidence, water safety skills, stroke practice
and diving. All students are grouped according to the signed
permission note from term 1 and teacher judgement based on their
swimming ability. If you feel that your child is in the wrong group please send in a signed note stating which group
you feel they should be in, to their classroom teacher.
Students are reminded to bring their swimming costume, towel, hat and sun cream.
If students are not swimming one week, a signed note explaining why they are not swimming needs to be sent in to
their classroom teacher.
This Friday we have several students travelling to Tottenham for the tennis gala day. We hope the students have a
great time and hope their backhand improves throughout the day.
We would also like to wish Kuber Thakur and Abigail Ballhausen all the best this week as they are travelling to
Sydney for the state athletics carnival. We are hoping you both obtain PBs in your events.
Lacy Sampson – Sports Co-ordinator
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Finding Frank performance
Tennis Gala
Farrer experience day
Spelling evaluation
Kindergarten zoo excursion
NPS Book Fair
Wednesday and Thursday 18 & 19
October 2017
Students and families welcome to purchase between 8.30-9am,
1.20-1.55pm and 3-4pm.
Eftpos facilities will be available on those days
in the library and purchasers are
encouraged to use this service.
Respect, Honesty, Responsibility – RHR – That’s Who We Are
Footy Colours Day!
The playground was awash with colour as the students donned their favourite football colours to raise funds for the
Fight Cancer Foundation. This organisation supports children and young people living with cancer so that they may
continue their education. There was a very exciting guessing competition to see how many metres Mr Geyer can kick
a football. In total the SRC raised close to $200.
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Term 3 Year 3-6 Fantasy Social
Respect, Honesty, Responsibility – RHR – That’s Who We Are
Aboriginal Elder Visit
Stage 2 was lucky enough to have a visit from an
Aboriginal Elder, Tom Carney, and his daughter
Danielle Flakelar, who works for the National
Parks and Wildlife. Tom and Danielle told us a
story about how the rivers and creeks were
formed around the Macquarie Marshes. The story
was about a wedge-tail eagle that kept diving and
taking food from others. The animals decided to
take a fire stick up to the wedge-tail eagle’s nest
to take down the nest and tree.
This Aboriginal Dreamtime story explained to us
how the rivers and creeks were formed. We also
learned that being greedy and taking too much
from our environment is not sustainable. We
enjoyed listening to our guest speakers because
we found the stories interesting and informative. It also gave us a good insight into how we can look after our
environment and to be sustainable. Stage 2 is looking forward to attending the excursion to the Aboriginal Reserve
Bemunnel in Warren on Friday week 4. – 4W
Numeracy Team
Year 1
enjoyed
measuring
outside
last week
in their
numeracy
lesson.
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P&C News
The next P&C general meeting is on next Tuesday 24th October at 5pm in the school staff room. All welcome to
attend.
Tastebuds Special - Special Chicken Caesar $4.50
Community
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Term 4 Calendar
MONTH MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY WEEK 2 OCTOBER
16
17 Dream Cricket
18 Book Fair
19 Yr 6 NHS Transition Book Fair
20 Kindy Zoo Excursion Tennis Gala Day
WEEK 3 OCTOBER
23 Assembly K-6 Host Yr1&2 SRC Item 5A
24 P&C Meeting 5pm
25
26 Yr 6 NHS Transition
27 Finding Frank performance K-2
WEEK 4 OCTOBER/ NOVEMBER
30
31 Hearing screeners
1 Hearing screeners Sports Photos
2 HS Gala Day Yr 5/6
3 Stg 2 Cultural excursion
WEEK 5 NOVEMBER
6 K-6 Assembly Host School Leaders Item KK
7
8
9 Yr 6 NHS Transition
10 Vision Clinic
WEEK 6 NOVEMBER
13 School Leader speeches Girls
14 School Leader speeches Boys
15
16 Yr 6 NHS Transition
17 Intensive swimming
WEEK 7 NOVEMBER Intensive Swimming
20 K-6 Assembly Host Yr 5&6 SRC Item KO
21 Link up day
22
23 Yr 7 Orientation Day
24
WEEK 8 NOVEMBER Intensive Swimming
27 28
29 NO SWIMMING K-6 Presentation Day
30
1
WEEK 9 DECEMBER
4 K-6 Assembly Host Yr 3&4 SRC Item 2M
5
6
7 Yr 6 Farewell Assembly and Dinner
8
WEEK 10 DECEMBER
11
12
13 Pool reward
14 PBL draw
15 Last day of term for students
